The Clouds of Ioannina is a collection of writings inspired by the multicultural history of northwestern Greece. In the early 20th century, before the region of Epirus changed hands from the Ottoman Empire to the Kingdom of Greece, the regional seat of Ioannina was home to a community of Romaniote, Greek-speaking Jews, who have all but vanished from the land.

The Clouds of Ioannina chronicles episodes of a community facing a long, losing battle with cultural survival. The book's eleven essays describe life in Ioannina and its multi-ethnic and interfaith cultural diversity. Five poems convey the journey of travels from Greece to Turkey, and six interviews feature wide-ranging conversations, some posthumous, with leaders of the Jewish community of Ioannina and their diaspora in the US.

Deep in the Pindus Mountains of northwestern Greece, a multigenerational story of return to a highland lake town reveals insights older than the castle district of its medieval heritage in this collection of essays, poems and interviews by an American writer based in Istanbul with Greek-Jewish roots.

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Essays

City on the Lake
Romaniote: An Odyssey
Dionysus in Diaspora
Ottoman Twilight
Poet of Greek Jewry
Silver Town
Polymath of Crete
Ancestral Feminism
First Jewish Mayor
Craft of the Epitaph
Yanya’s Diner

Poems

The Pasha’s Mirror
The Numbered Emptiness
Beneath the Silent Stone
When Enough Is Said
The Old Horizon

Interviews

Moses Elisaf
Allegra Matsa
Isaak Dostis
Jon Kalef-Esra
Menahem Asser
Renee Yomtov